Underbid Detector | WorkSiteCam

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Your Name

Email Address

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Materials cost on this job ($)

Real cost — your invoice from the supplier, not the price you quote.

Labor cost on this job ($)

Burdened labor — wages + payroll + benefits. Not your bid line.

Overhead allocation (%)

Your annual overhead ÷ revenue. 18% is the trade-industry default.

Target net margin (%)

The margin you NEED, not the margin you've been getting.

The quote you're about to send ($)

The final number on the proposal — about to go out.

Bids you send per year

For the annual impact calc — assumes a 60% win rate.

Underbid On This Quote

$0

straight off the kitchen table

True cost (materials + labor + OH)-

Target margin-

Correct bid for target margin-

Your bid-

Underbid %-

Annual impact at this rate-

Work you can't prove is work you can't bill. WorkSiteCam documents change orders the day the extra shows up — photo, date, location — so it gets billed instead of eaten.

Underbid threshold uses the standard markup formula: correct bid = true cost ÷ (1 - target margin). Annual impact assumes a 60% win rate at this underbid pattern. Re-run on every bid for a month to see the cumulative shift.